Word Meanings - PYTHONESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece. 2. Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch. Bp. Hall.
Related words: (words related to PYTHONESS)
- DELPHINIC
Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic. Delphinic acid. See Valeric acid, under Valeric. - SPIRITUOUS
1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; - WITCH-ELM
See WYCH-ELM - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - WITCH
A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera. (more info) the same word as AS. witiga, witga, a soothsayer ; cf. Fries. wikke, a witch, LG. wikken to predict, Icel. vitki a wizard, 1. One who practices - DELPHINE
Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes. - WITCHING
That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching. "The very witching time of night." Shak. -- Witch"ing*ly, adv. - DELPHINUS
A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin, - SPIRITUOSITY
The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness. - SPIRITUAL-MINDED
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. - WOMANLY
Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne. - SPIRITISM
Spiritualsm. - WITCHCRAFT
1. The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits. 2. Power more than natural; irresistible influence. He hath a witchcraft Over the king in 's tongue. Shak. - SPIRITUALISTIC
Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism. - SPIRITUOUSNESS
The quality or state of being spirituous. Boyle. - PRIESTESS
A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. Abp. Potter. - WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
Womanhood. Chaucer. - ORACULAR
1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue. 2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism. They have something venerable and oracular - SPIRITUAL
1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv. - DELPHINOID
Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin. - PUBLIC-SPIRITED
1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly, - AIRWOMAN
A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft. - DIADELPHIA
A Linnæan class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments. - UNWITCH
To free from a witch or witches; to fee from witchcraft. B. Jonson. - DIDELPHIC
Having the uterus double; of or pertaining to the Didelphia. - DISPIRITED
Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n. - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - DIADELPHIAN; DIADELPHOUS
Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments . - UNWOMAN
To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning. - NOBLEWOMAN
A female of noble rank; a peeress. - DISSPIRIT
See DISPIRIT - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.